The album is just average, all this heated talk around it is really void of meaning. People who like it think that whoever doesn't enjoy it is a purist and they discard them as such.
Wildernessking, or the first two Ghost Bath albums, are much more interesting musically and in a "similar" direction. Of course Deafheaven never played anything groundbreaking, everything in their music has been played before and at times, even in extreme metal. Not to mention the almost laughable lyrics.
But as always, Norway did it first. You just have to look and find the bands yourselves.
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Album Rating: 4.5
“Not even top 20 bm of the decade”
Not even sure it should be considered a black metal album in anything but superficial aesthetic anyways, and I’m not trying to be that early 00s metal archives “not real metal” kind of guy. Too full of poppy chord progressions, screamo drum fills and vocal stylings, shoegaze and indie rock influences. Most of the best stuff about this isn’t the black metal
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